George Winston
Montana - A Love Story

An album dedicated to solo piano lovers.

George Winston is one of the most famous composers in the New Age realm, as well as a piano composer creating not classical music but virtuously atmospheric music. His albums depict the entire natural environment, with melodies of great elegance, perspective, and boundless perceptual vision. It is impossible to verbally explain what he feels when he thinks of particular places, then describes them spontaneously; as soon as he feels something inside, it becomes immediate to him. First and foremost, he bases his music on the four seasons; secondly, he mentally "photographs" the scene; and thirdly, he seeks a sociological connection, but he does not consider himself a master because he never stops being a student. Everything becomes a game; he rediscovers childhood and memories in a more mature and effective present, and so music becomes self-expressive fun, expressing what one wants to do and desires to do, and everything becomes an imaginary barrier to cross, to develop imagination, waiting for the result.

He defines the music he plays as "Rural Folk," he made a CD of The Doors covers, and in "Montana - A Love Story" in the track "The Little House I Used To Live In," he touches on names like Frank Zappa. It seems absurd, right? Yet it's true, and also includes Mark Isham, Philip Aaberg, Sam Cooke, Rentaro Taki, and others. He loves the piano, guitar, and harmonica and believes in the relationship between mathematics and music. Music is continuous frequency and doubled, meaning the octave, but different cultures sometimes divide the octave in different ways, where universal concepts are the octave, fourth, and fifth, which are intervals of everyday life.

The sound becomes a personal and very deep diary, touching his heart and becoming an integral part of his body. It is no longer the pen that writes, but the fingers that start to glide over the black and white keys of a heterogeneous piano, describing his native land, Montana, and thus memories of childhood, family, and home emerge, becoming a great emotional and evasive expansion. Pieces soaked in delicacy and reflective and stimulating fragility, from dissonances assembled into consonances, lines of swooning romantic warmth. Eighteen tracks, mostly short but more than complete, images of lone snowfalls in a freezing winter, the sound of logs burning in an imposing fireplace warming the heart, or a gust of wind spreading leaves of a thousand colors in an uncertain autumn, or the patter of spring rain refreshing expansive green fields, the scorching and silent summer sun burning with passion on desert sand.

The most beautiful thing to do is to insert this CD into the stereo, lie down on a bed, close your eyes, and let yourself be carried away by the notes and environmental calls that create an exploratory and truthful vision, traversing this enchanting journey that will pierce the heart of anyone carrying a good deal of sensitivity... It will become a personal reminiscence.

Many adults, but no one in particular, will ever be the first adult to forever remain the last child.